Semiconductor Engineering

Writing Reusable UPF For RTL And Gate-Level Low Power Verification

The Unified Power Format (UPF) is used to specify the power intent of a design. Once written, the UPF file is applied at every stage of the design cycle — starting with the RTL, then the gate-level, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Get To Know The Gate-Level Power Aware Simulation

The post-synthesis gate-level netlist (GL-netlist) based PA simulation input requirements are mostly the same as RTL simulation. However, the design under verification here is the GL-netlist from ...
EDN

Physical RTL optimization solves problems early

While most of the ASIC industry is focused on solving timing and congestion problems at the netlist level, LSI Logic has developed and deployed an innovative methodology to resolve these physical ...
Electronic Design

ASIC Handoff Gets Physical As Front And Back Ends Converge

True or false: ASIC design follows a very straightforward path that begins with high-level architectural definition. It proceeds through RTL design and preliminary floorplanning. After synthesis, the ...
EDN

Exploring new design flows — RTL synthesis

Editor's Note: In Part 2 of this series,consultant and ASIC designer Tom Moxoncovered several trends in virtual silicon prototying design flows.In this installment of the series he'll show how to link ...
Electronic Design

Reduce Power in Chip Designs with Sequential Clock Gating

Clock gating is one of the most frequently used techniques in RTL to reduce dynamic power consumption without affecting the functionality of the design. One method involves inserting gating conditions ...